Spare5 taps human expertise via a crowdsourcing platform to help companies make sense of unstructured data. The company’s technology is now being used by companies including Expedia and Getty Images. The platform can call on a global community of more than 40,000 subject-matter specialists to accomplish custom micro-tasks through an app on their smartphone or desktop. The result, it says, are “game-changing insights delivered cost-effectively and at scale” The company says it’s now working with Expedia, Getty Images and other companies to enrich, clean and label data.”]

